The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Moringeae

This order contains but a solitary genus--Moringa. Unarmed trees, inhabiting tropical Asia, Northern Africa, and the West Indies. Flowers irregular, in axillary panicles; calyx five-partite, with oblong sub-equal segments, imbricate in bud; petals five, inserted on the calyx, linear-oblong, the two posterior rather the longest, ascending, imbricate in bud. Leaves two or three, impari-pinnate; leaflets very caducous; stipules deciduous. There are only three species.

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